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Genealogy in Croatia: Genealogy as an Auxiliary Science of History in Croatian Historiography

Auxiliary sciences of history (palaeography, diplomatics, chronology, egdotics, sigillography, heraldry, genealogy) have a long and rich tradition within Croatian historiography. They were taught (palaeography, diplomatics) as a separate course at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Zagreb in the eighteenth century, and Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski proposed the establishment of the Chair for Diplomatics, Heraldry, and Sigillography at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in the mid-nineteenth century. This, however, was never realized. The development of genealogy in Croatia in 19th century was limited by the paucity of scholars, as well to the lack of institutionalized framework both at the University in Zagreb and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. The development of the Auxiliary Sciences of History is inextricably connected to the transformation of die Royal/State Archives into a modern archive in 1848. A quarter century later, in 1875, attempts were made at connecting the Archives with the university study of history with emphasis on the development of auxiliary sciences of history have, by employing an individual who would work in the Archives and taught corresponding courses at the University, a system modelled on the universities of Graz, Vienna and Prague. However, this was not realized, although the cooperation between the two institutions was partly achieved, at a mutual benefit, through the person of Tadija Smičikjas who, at the time, worked on his capital project Codex diplomaticus Regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae et Slavoniae. Another important scholar who worked in those two disciplines was Milan Šufflay. In 1908, he was appointed as the first professor and head of the Seminar—today’s Chair—of Auxiliary Sciences of History (and of Methodology of History) in the Department of History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ill Zagreb. The Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb (later under the name Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) has a long and fruitful tradition of auxiliary sciences of history that dates back to the times when the modem university was first established and continues until today. Even though the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History was formally established in 1908, subjects from this group had been taught at the Department of History much earlier. Josip Matasović, Ph. D. (1892-1962) is one of the teachers, professors and scholars who contributed to the development of auxiliary sciences of history in Croatia. Matasović, who also served as the director of the State Archives (present day Croatian State Archives) in Zagreb, taught auxiliary sciences of history as an associate professor since the summer semester of the academic year 1945/1946. He added Other auxiliary historical disciplines to Ilis course, including metrology, archival science, sigillography/sphragistics, heraldry, genealogy and historical geography, taught methodology with the basics of historiography / introduction into the history, and founded a library for the Seminar from Auxiliary Sciences of History. His activities as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy have left their mark on almost a decade and a half of auxiliary sciences of history in Croatia, for the most part through his students. This lecture/paper offers a chronological survey of the scholars involved and an assessment of their research, pointing to those individuals who researched genealogy in Croatian historiography like professionals and like amateurs in Croatia, to the respective scholarly fields.

genealogy, auxiliary science of history, Croatia, Croatian historiography

International Genealogical Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019: The Universality and Particularity of the Study of Genealogy in the East and the West, organizatori: Hanoi National University of Education & Association of Korean Genealogy Studies, Hanoi, August 23, 2019. (referat: Hanoi Genealogy in Croatia: Genealogy as an Auxiliary Science of History in Croatian Historiography) ; Genealogy in Croatia: Genealogy as an Auxiliary Science of History in Croatian Historiography, in: The Universality and Particularity of the Study of Genealogy in the East and the West (International Genealogical Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019), [ed. JUNG, Su-hwan], Hanoi: Hanoi National University of Education & Association of Korean Genealogy Studies, 2019, pp. 61-73. (Ngành Gia phả học của Croatia: Ngành nghiên cứu phái sinh từ ngành Lịch sử ; 크로아티아의 계보학: 크로아티아 역사•학에 서 파생된 계보학)